Boot or shoe



(No Model.) W. WASS.

l BOOT 0R SHOE. A 110.499,616. Patented June 13,1893.

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM VASS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BooT 0R SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 499,616, dated J' une13,1893. Application filed September 9, 1892. Serial No. 445,448. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM VASS, of Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Boots or Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description.

My invention is an improvement in the class of boot or shoe heels, whichare provided with detachable wear plates.

The improvement is embodied in the construction and arrangement of partshereinafter described and more specifically indicated in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures and letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the heel with the wear plates inposition thereon. Fig. 2 is an inner face view of the outer wear plate.Fig. 3 is a section taken essentially on the line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4is a section taken practically on the line 4 4 of Fig. 5, but throughboth of the plates. Fig. 5 is a plan or outer face view of the innerwear plate. Fig. 6 is a plan View of a modied form of the outer wearplate. Fig. 7 is an inverted plan View of a modied form of the outerplate; and Fig. 8 is a section taken essentially on the line 8 8 of Fig.7.

The two wear plates employed are designated respectively as A and B. Theouter face of the outer wear plate is ordinarily made smooth, and nearits inner edge this plate is provided with a countersunk aperture 10,vto receive a binding screw 10a. The inner face of the outer plate nearits outer edge, in front of the aperture 10, is provided with adownwardly-extending lug 11, and at each side of the center this outerwear plate has produced in its inner or upper face two cavities l2 and13. These cavities are usually located between the aperture 10 and theouter edge of the plate, one being at each side of a longitudinal linedrawn through the plate, as has heretoforebeen stated. The formation ofthe outer wear plate is completed by producing a disk-like button l5,upon its inner or upper face adjacent to its outer edge, and the sidewalls of this button 15 are under-cut or beveled, as shown in Fig. 3.

With reference to the inner plate B, the outer or lower face of thisplate is centrally provided near its inner edge with asocket 17, andthis socket is adapted to receive the lug 11 of the outer plate; and atthe rear of the socket 17 an aperture 18, is produced, the walls whereofare threaded to receive the lower end of the binding screw 10, as shownin Fig. 3. In the under or outer face of this inner wear plate, near itsouter or rear edge, a cavity 19, is produced, and this cavity is ofsufficient size to receive the button 15 when entered therein at aninclination. The cavity 19, at its outer margin is irregular, a portiononly of it being circular; but below the margin the walls of the cavityare under cut, as shown by the dotted line 20, in such manner as toproduce a circular form. Between the cavity 19 and the aperture 18receiving the lower end of the binding screw 10, two lugs 21 and 22, areformed upon the outer or under face of the inner plate B, and these lugsare adapted to enter the cavities 12 and 13 in the outer plate. Theinner plate is secured upon the heel usually by means of two screws 23,the said screws being passed through properly-located openings in theplate and thence into the leather portion 24 of the heel, as shown bestin Fig. 4..

In placing the wear plates upon the heel of a shoe or boot, theoperation is as follows: The inner plate, as has just been stated, isscrewed to a firm bearing against the leather portion of the heel, withits face bearing the lugs 21 and the cavity 19 downward; the upper wearplate is then placed over the inner one, the button 15, is slid downinto the cav- -ity 19 of the inner plate, and the outer plate is thenforced rearward until the outer` edges of the two plates are even; thelug 11 is next made to enter the recess 17, and when this occurs the twolugs 21 and 22 on the inner plate will have entered the recesses 12 and13 in the outer plate. The inall step in the adjustment of the twoplates is made b y passing the binding screw 1,0 through the open'- ing10 in the outer plate and into the aperture 13 in the inner plate, inwhich aperture it is turned until its threads properly engage.

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By this means it will be observed that a wear plate or protecting platefor the heels of boots or shoes is economically constructed,the platesbeing adapted for ready and expeditious applieation.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I have shown the outer wear plate as constructedpartially of metal and partially of leather. InFig. 6, which shows thebottom face of the plate, the metal portion thereof forms the margin,and is designated as 25, while the inner portion 26, is ot leather. Inthe margin of the metal portion any desired number of apertures oropenings 27, is produced, and these apertures or openings are adapted toreceive calks 28, when such devices are required to be used upon a heel.The calks are provided with heads at their inner ends-which heads iit incountersinks produced at the inner margins of the openings 27, as shownin Fig. 8, and when these calks are not required for use they may bereadily removed by disengaging the outer from the inner plate. In Fig. 7I have shown an upper or inner face view of the modified form of theouter Wear plate, and it will be observed that the leather portion 26,extends over nearly the entire face, the metal appearing only at theouter edges, at which point the locking button 15,is located.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. In a heel for a boot or shoe a plate secured totheleather portion thereof, the under face of which 4plate is providedwith a recess having under-cut wal1s,lugs located adjacent to therecess, the said plate being also provided with a recess opposite thathaving under-cut walls, vand an outer plate provided with a lockingbutton, adapted to enter the recess having under-cut walls, and a studadapted to enter a recess also in the inner plate, the outer plate beingprovided with recesses receiving the lugs of the inner plate, and abinding screw connecting the two plates, substantially as shown anddescribed.

2. In a heel for boots and shoes, a metal plate secured to the leatherheel and provided near its outer end with a recess having undercutwalls, and near its inner end with a second recess, the plate beingfurther provided with lugs located between the two recesses, of a secondplate adapted to cover the Xed plate, the second or outer plate beingprovided with a locking button to enter the recess in the fixed platewhose walls are undercut, the outer plate being provided with a lug toenter the recess in the inner portion of the inner plate, the outerplate being also provided with recesses to receive the studs of theinner plate, and a locking medium, substantially as shown and described,between the two plates, as and for the purpose specified.

VILLIAM WVASS.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, E. M. CLARK.

